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This is a biography written of Christina (Christine in her record in the first line) Wanner Nuffer by her daughter Louise. I have maintained her grammar and spelling in the biography. I have written of Charles and Christina previously. Here is August’s autobiography.

My Mother, Christine, Wanner was born 30 March 1872 in Holzgerlinger, Germany. She was the daughter of Johann Georg Wanner and Anna Maria Schmid. She was the second child of a family of ten children. Mother started school at the age of seven in 1879 and graduated at the age of fourteen in 1886 in Greengrant (Gruenkraut), Germany.

The gospel message was brought to her parent’s home in Germany by the Mormon Missionaries. My grandparents joined the church and came to America 18 Jun 1893. Mother was twenty-one years old then. She was baptized on the 26th of January 1894 in Mapleton, Idaho by Heber Taylor. She learned to speak English by talking to other people. Her parents settled in Glendale, Idaho. There is where she met my father Charles August Nuffer, he was living in Mapleton with his parents. Mother did some housework for people before her marriage. She didn’t get much money, what she earned she had to give to her parents. My parents were married 1 Feb 1894 in the Logan Temple by W. M. (Marriner Wood) Merrill.

Father had built a rock house and they moved right in about all the furniture they had is what Father had made from boxes and other wood. In those days they got along fine with the few things they had.

Mother always made the best of everything. She also believed the best of everyone. She was kind and loved her children very much. Mother was a good homemaker and did all the sewing and knitting for her family. She loved to do things for others. She believed in bringing up her children by teaching them to pray and by always taking them to church.

Father was busy making a living for the family, he worked hard to secure the necessities of life. Wood was used for fuel and Father had to get this from the canyons. Kerosene lamps provided the lights for the house. Father and Mother often visited the sick and sat up nights with the dead and helped lay them away.

They lived in their first house over thirteen years and seven children were born there. In November of 1907 they moved to Preston. For the first few years they had much sickness, Father, Clara and Annie had Typhoid Fever. This worked a hardship on Mother as she had a young baby also. Mother promise the Lord that if He would bless her husband to get better that she would let him go on a mission. She was true to her word and in the spring of 1910 he left to go on a mission to the Eastern States for two years. Mother was left to care for nine children including Laura who was the baby only two months old. This took much courage for Mother and was a hardship but she never complained. With the Lord’s help and the help of friends and relatives she got along the best that she could. When Father came home from his mission they had to start all over again, by borrowing money to buy a farm. It took a long time for them to get out of debt.

Father and Mother always took the time to go visiting relatives in the early days. They would travel by horse and buggy. They also liked to go fishing. When her sister Pauline died they took Cyril (Crossley) the youngest boy and took care of him for two years. When Annie died 25 Jan 1928 there came another big responsibility for Mother that of taking care of her two youngest children, the twins Barbara and Beverly.

Mother was set apart as a Relief Society teacher 30 April 1916 by N. S. Geddes and she retained this position until the time of her death and she was faithful in her duty.

She and Father worked on the Genealogy Committee for years going into the homes helping people prepare their family group sheets for their own use and to sent to Salt Lake. They were very interested in Temple work and made many trips to Logan doing this work for their ancestors and others.

Father and Mother were active in their German Speaking Latter Day Saint organization until World War I. Racial feelings at that time made it necessary for the organization to be discontinued. Many times our parents used to practice singing Germany Hymns in the home. Preston and Laura were born in Preston, Idaho and the rest of us in Mapleton, Idaho. Mother died 10 August 1940 on my sister Clara’s birthday. She is buried in Preston Cemetery.

Funeral services for Christina Wanner Nuffer were held August 14th, at 2:00 P.M. The pall-bearers were Donald Hansen, Max Hansen, Keith Winn, Devon Winn, Donald Cummings, & Leon Nuffer. Admiring friends and relatives assembled at the Second Ward Chapel to pay a final tribute to Christina W. Nuffer. Scores of floral tributes were added testimony of her many admirers.

Services were conducted by Bishop Howard Hall and interment was in the Preston Cemetery. Mrs. Christina Wanner age sixty eight died Saturday August 10th at her home of a tumor of the spine. She had lived in Preston for thirty three years. Surviving are her husband, three sons, and five daughters, six brothers and sisters, George and Fred Wanner of Preston, Gotlob B. Wanner of Inkom, Idaho, Mrs. Louise Bodero and Mrs Mina Bodero of Logan, Utah, and Mrs. Mary Wagstaff of Ogden. Mrs. Nuffer reared two of her grandchildren, Barbara and Beverly Cummings with the help of her daughter Louise Nuffer Roberts.

Since this is another peripheral line, I will not get to write much on this family. But this photo I thought deserved to be shared with others.

Maria Magdalena Wanner, the mother of this family in the photo, is the sister to my Johann Georg (John George) Wanner Jr.

William Addison Wagstaff was born 7 November 1860 in Kirstead, Pinxton, Derbyshire, England. He passed away 31 May 1931 in Ogden, Weber, Utah.

Maria Magdalena Wanner was born 12 Sepember 1873 in Grünkraut, Tübingen, Württemberg to Johann Georg Wanner and Anna Maria Schmid. Her whole family joined the LDS church in 1891 and immigrated to the US in 1892 settling in Logan, Cache, Utah. She passed away 23 October 1952 in Ogden.

William and Maria were married 17 June 1896 in the Logan LDS Temple. To this marriage were born 11 children. All of which were born in Glendale, Franklin (then Oneida County), Idaho.

George William Wagstaff born 26 January 1897, died 4 February 1897.

James Addison Wagstaff born 24 June 1898, died 14 March 1913.

Annie Eliza Wagstaff born 27 December 1899, died 20 December 1940. I do not think she married.

The entire family moved to West Weber, Weber, Utah after the last child and before 1920 and remained there the rest of their lives. Most of these children died in or near the Ogden area. One or two returned to the Preston, Franklin, Idaho area, probably due to relationships from before the move.

The individuals in the photograph above are as follows from left to right, front row consists of the three children in front. The photo above was taken about 1914 after James had died, but before Albert was born. Aren’t they a cute little family?

If you have more information to add to this family, I would be happy to correct or add to it.

Today I am glad to announce that I completed the Nuffer family history. As grand as that sounds, that actually is defined as I only finished the book that Larry gave me on the Nuffer family. I went through and read the entire book gleaning family history information. It was very interesting. Much of the history of Preston, Glendale, Mapleton, Providence, and other places in Cache Valley are included. I have built a greater relationship with my Nuffer ancestry now. Plus I have learned a good deal about parts of the family I knew nothing about. There are everything in there about marriages, skeletons in the family, births, deaths, places, and even records of temple ordinances (including second anointings). It has been very interesting.

This will come as a revelation to some, but I am still typing up the journals of Lillian Coley Jonas Bowcutt. I am now 9 months into 1961. I hope to finish the year by the end of the week and send it out to all the family who are related. I am excited. I have learned some really interesting things. She tells of her bout with cancer, having ‘her female organs’ removed, and the comings and goings of neighbors. She tells of every family who comes to visit. I have really enjoyed it. She tells of my Grandma going to get a cancerous mole removed. She tells of my Mother and some of her reactions to others. She tells often of the baby, Jackie, and how she seems to be always sick. She mentions how she is taking care of Ren and how he broke his hip. She tells of her reading the Book of Mormon and how she wishes she could go to the temple with her sister Edna. I am building a relationship with my Great Grandmother. I wish they were a little longer and she would reflect some. When her own mother died, she tells of the funeral and nothing more. She tells who came to visit but nothing of the emotional side made it in really. I wish she would tell something about Joseph Jonas. The only mention so far is going to put flowers on his grave, and his father’s.

There are two interviews tomorrow. Both with staffing services. One is for a legal staffing company. I would really like to know if they have anything available. If there are no job offers, I think I will go ahead with the job at Combined. I have already agreed to start training next week. I have been really impressed with Marc Summers, who is hiring me. He has been so kind and really gone out of his way to help any concerns I have had. Not to mention his respect of the LDS religion. He has openly stated he wants to learn more, so I am interested in taking this job just for the missionary opportunities. The same in traveling to visit people. I could meet more, have more opportunity, get to know Richmond more by going with Combined than ever sitting in an office. I did always want a job that would be outside. Geez, I don’t know why I am even second guessing this. It seems like it could be all I could want and more.

The bad parts are that I will have training for three weeks. The first week here in Glen Allen. Then two weeks in Raleigh, North Carolina. They pay for all the costs, but that doesn’t help alleviate the costs of living right now. However, once I have a job, they tell me the usual base pay for a week is at least $500. That is if you are doing the work and just picking up premiums. He said selling insurance on top of that will only add to that amount. He said they like to have their people making $125 a day. He said you can pretty easily make over that. I think I will give it a try. The money would not hurt, but more importantly, I need some type of income. The best part is I love to travel, I love to meet new people, and what an opportunity to share the gospel. You never know, I could do insurance law some day. They said they do have a legal department and they even help to pay for some of the schooling. Sounds like a good idea to me. We will have to see. I think I will go with it. I will wait and see what these two interviews tomorrow bring for us.